Volume 1 - Electric Scotland

-xxiv JAMKS .lOnXSTuXK, YuUXCiKU, 147S-14SS.
James llie "Tliii'd griuitei.l a eliarter in iavovir of " Joliii Johustoiie, son to
James Johnstone," ol' tlie lands of Joliustoiie and otbcis. Xeitlier iliat
charter uor the instriinieni of easinc folloNving upon it can now be fonnd in
tlio Annandalc chaiti-r-chest. But in an invenlory of ttic i\nnandale muni-
ments wliicli was carefully prepared in the year 17-tl, and is still the wijrkini;
inventory of the estate nuininients, the rh.arter and sasine in favour of John
Johnstone, son of James, are described in the following; entry:
" Item, instrument of sasine proceeding upon a charter granted by the king
in favours of John Johnstone, sou to Jraues Johnstone, of the lauds and tenement
of Johnstone, Kirkpatrick-riceming, and Cauwavtshohn, \vith the pertinents, lying
in the lordsliip of Annandale and sheriPfdom of Dumfries, dated 13th September
1 IS-I. James Fawside, notary thereto." ^
As stated in the preceding Jlemoir, John Johnstone of Johnstone
mateiially aided the forces of King James the Third at the battle of Loch-
maben on 22d July 1-tSl. The king liberally rewarded Kirkpatrick, the
actual capturer of Douglas, as well as others who fought for their sovereign.
As John Johnstone was one of the jnosl zealous of the rojal follo^vers,
he received from King James the Third a new cro^vn charter of the family
estates in favour of his grandson, John Johnstone, son of James Johnstone,
so named only, and not of Johnstone. On that charter sasine was taken
on 13Lli September HS-i, being only about two montlis after the battle
of Loclimaben. The original charter is nov/ lost, having probably been
burned in the great conSagratiou of Lochwood Tower in the following
centur}-, but no don 't it contain.ed advantages as to the terms of the hold-
ing and the crov.-n rents. Jolm, the grandfather, was at the date of that
charter, in 148-1, far advanced in years, and he had desired that the king
' Original large folio inventory iu Annandale
C.'harter-cliCit. Two imiierfcct coiiies of
deleted and corrected to J.nnics, .ind James
deleted and corrected to Joliu.— [Minutes of
that entry were juoduccd from the AVe?ter- Annandale I'eer.agc Evidence, 1S77, pp. 24S,
hall Cliarter-chcst. One of those entries is 2SC.]
so inaccurate as to have the name of John
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